Man Faces Criminal Charges for Reading Wife's E-Mail

Man Faces Criminal Charges for Reading Wife's E-Mail

Published December 27, 2010

| FoxNews.com

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – A Michigan man found out about his wife's affair -- but somehow he's the one in trouble, and may is now facing criminal charges.

Thirty-three-year-old Leon Walker used his wife's password to get into her Gmail account, and says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer. Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted this month, and Leon Walker will stand trial Feb. 7 -- on felony computer misuse charges.

Walker told The Oakland Press that he was trying to protect the couple's children from neglect and calls the case a "miscarriage of justice."

“I feel very strongly that I’ll be exonerated,” Walker told the paper.


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lol bet he won't do that again!

She won't either!!

I think he will beat it!!!

Don't touch that.

I guess it's true then. What's his is hers in the marriage, and what's hers is hers as well.

The court will toss it out when it gets there, otherwise there will be a lot of people being arrested in the near future for peeking at the call/text records on their significant others' phones, especially if the two of them are simply dating and not married. Those smart phones are mini computers after all.

do you really think the d.a. will throw it out? i know the d.a. and courts would rather not deal with some stuff, but sometimes they do have to look at the evidence. i would think he would need permission unless it was his property. if it is thrown out, i'm betting she is planning on proving in a civil action that it was her property and he didn't have permission.

Funny that you say that Printsmith. I know mine is definitely smarter than I am. I have had it about 9 days now. LOL

The last paragraph said that it was a shared computer MtnTrekker.

i went back and reread that. thanks. now it is even more interesting as to whether an adult has the right to privacy on a shared computer. i would think you have a right to privacy until you grant someone permission and then it is for as long as you grant that permission.

A person would expect privacy on a password protect account. He is going down.... I do agree that if the genders were reversed, the the case would not even be prosecuted, since the DA would decide that he/she could not get a conviction.

So in your opinion, what is good for the gander is not good for the goose?

And vice versa. It is called equal protection under the law.